Ben Kochie wrote: > > most distributions are 386, or 486 compiled. the Pentium 4 is little more > than the PPro architecutre, which the kernel optimizes just fine for.. the > only distro that comes with all pentium-optimized (pgcc) binaries, is > mandrake, and it shows, i think it's the most unstable distro out there. > > Thank You, > Ben Kochie (ben at nerp.net) > > > Anyone know what kernel versions do/don't run "native mode" (as opposed > > to "i386") on a Pentium 4? > > > > How about full Linux releases? > > > > thanks, > > > > -S Yeah, but you gotta admit, 1.5GHz is attractively fast. At roughly $2K (base model, w/o monitor) from Dell, that's _still_ 7500Hz/penny. Memory thruput alone ought to make it scream compared to a same Hz'ed P-III. -S